Are You a Man? Are You a Mutt? // Relationship Goals: In Real Life (Part 3) // Pastor Michael Todd

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God will transform your life. Do today's message, aymen.

I feel locked and loaded today, y'all. I feel I

feel clear in my soul. I've been at a week

of intensive counseling by myself and the Holy Spirit has

been revealing things in me that He still wants to heal.

And I want to admit that to you as my congregation,

because I can't lead you to a place I've never been,

and I want to let you know that I've gone

on a journey to become a man that I've never

met before. And if you thought that our church has

been effective in the past, yes, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,

you ain't seen nothing yet. And today I feel like

God is so kind that he would save this message

today until I did some of the work that I've done.

And so we are in a series, part three of

a series called relationship Goals helped me in real life?

Has this been blessing anybody so far? This series? Okay,

today we're going to another level so buckle up. I

got forty eight minutes, and I'm gonna use every second

of it because I think I found, specifically, ladies, I

think I have found the answer to your questions. No, no, no, no, no, no, no,

you didn't hear what I just said. This is not it, Charles,

Come get this real quick. I think I found the

answer to your question. Because how many people in here

want a good relationship? If everybody's hand is not up? Golly,

I'm gonna ask you one more time, and we're gonna

give you a retail online and in the room. How

many people in here want good relationships? All right? Okay?

How many people in here have at least one good relationship? Okay?

How many people would say they have over ten good relationships?

You're lying? Ten ten is a lot. Ten ten is

a lot. I would challenge your one, but I will

say ten is extra. No, no, no, no. I hope

you do have over ten good relationships. But the truth

of the matter is most people don't have one if

you put it against the criteria that God says a

good relationship is because the first the first criteria to

a good relationship. Let me just ask you this, is

it healthy did you connect around trauma bonding? How did

your relationship start? Because the root of a thing is

always connected to the fruit of a thing. So where

did you meet that person that you have a great

relationship with? What are some of the patterns and the

cycles of those relationships? Are there certain things that y'all

do that y'all know is okay? But you would never

tell anybody else to do those things? Today, I want

to help the ladies. Lady, you can do that anywhere,

and they, ah, what is that? Today? Ladies, I'm gonna

teach you how to choose a man. Now, some of

y'all that clap you already.

Got one, hold them tight because we're about to see

if you choose right. No, I'm just flaying, okay, everybody say,

how to choose a man?

I wish this was a class in high school, I mean,

or at Bibles at least, like how to choose a

man should be before you get eighteen years old, Like,

but we don't teach that yet. It would be one

of the greatest deceit off your life who you decide

to partner up with how to choose a man? And

for everybody that's already had a man and and you've

had several men and it's okay, it's okay, And maybe

you're with a man right now that you don't know.

This is gonna give everybody clarity today, and some of

you you're just gonna be able to tell your grandchildren

and say it one more time, say how to choose

a man? Here's the point. One point in the sermon

is done for you, ladies. You can't choose a man

who has not yet decided to be a man. And

many of my sisters are trying to choose a man

who has not chosen himself. Say Lah Pauls and think

Pastor Mike running back one more time. You are out

here trying to choose something that has not identified as

what you're looking for. I need a man. I need

a strong man. I need a man who provides. I

need a man who does what he does in the

bed room, but Steve does what he does before God.

I need I'll see y'all, tiktoks. The truth of the

matter is you're looking for what there is. Very few

of I came to fight today because there's an all

out war against biblical manhood, and we're building hopes of

people trying to find something that is not being deve

I'm going to walk us through this. Men, I got you, okay,

So I'm not comback at you, but I want to

teach you what you were never taught. And my people perish.

The Bible says for a lack of So today, if

I don't teach this, we always at church are healing

the symptoms of the issue that never actually gets taught.

We don't have enough people who have decided to become

a man. Passa mike. You have to give me some

Bible for this well. Genesis five, chapter one, verse two.

This is in the beginning, okay, and the Bible says

it like this. God he made them to be like him.

He created them male and female, and he blessed them,

and he called them humankind. Okay. He did not create

man and woman. He created male and female. So I

need everybody to understand the order of God. He doesn't

make men, He makes males. Okay, So every person born

with the equipment that God designed to identify male. If

you're following me, that person is male or female. God

only gives two options. Anything else is confusion. I didn't

say it. He said he created them like him. Both

male and female. What that makes me understand is that

you can be a fifty five year old male and

not a man. Just because you have the equipment doesn't

mean you're equipped. They don't want me to be real

right now. You know some people who still at like

they in their mama's house and they're sixty five years old,

playing them same games they played in middle school, high school,

doing the same things. They are not men yet they

are just males. Okay, I gotta keep moving because some

of y'all looking real mad at me right now. And

what I just want to let you know is maybe

you just didn't know. Maybe you were raised by a

male not a man. Maybe you never met a man,

maybe you were introduced. And so today I want to

give you a picture that no matter where you are Fellas,

you need to understand that God has a design for

biblical manhood. Can I break this down for you real quick,

because all of these ladies want to be in relationship

goes with you. But God told us in Genesis it's

not good for Adam to be alone. But look at

the word he used, it's not good for man to

be alone. That means it is good for male to

oh God, he said, it's he. Oh my God. He

created the beginning male and female. But then he said

it's not good for man to be alone. That means

there was something that happened in Adam from him being

created as male to God then changing him into man.

Y'all don't read the Bible. So there is a decision.

I'm gonna tell you what that decision is. It was

the decision to be submitted to God and it was

his choice. And so let me lay out for you.

If you've never seen this, if you don't get anything

else I say, I want you to understand the progression

that God desires for every male to actually possess and

to teach to the next generation. This is what it's

supposed to be. You are born a male. Put my

slide up on the screen, please. You were born a male,

and male is biological. You had no choice in that.

Them X and Y chromosomes came together and did the thing,

and your mom and daddy and you got her nose

and you got his face, and you got you look

just like your daddy, and that's you had no choice

in that. But that is biological. The next decision is

to go from a male and become a man, and

man is about intentional. I did it on purpose. I

made decisions to say no to that. I made decisions

to say yes to that. I made a decision to

leave that and follow christ. I made a decision to

lead that girl alone. I made a decision to leave

them dudes alone. I made a decision to stop drinking that.

I intentionally decided that these things go against what God

says is good for me to build my character, to

be a man of integrity, to stand and be a

man of valor. This thing is intentional. You do not

become a man by age. Time served does not make

you a man. The saddest truth is there are men

that live and die males. They never graduate. And this

is the crazy thing that this is just the second level. Good, wait,

there's more. And how do you kill a king in adolescence?

When they tried to kill Jesus, they said every child

under the age of to kill them all. Same thing

he's trying to do to all men, even if you

live to be an old age. He's trying to kill

and stunt your growth from a child. This is why

images of pornography are getting introduced younger and younger. This

is why people self esteem, This is why father's not

being in the home. This is why all of these

things are happening. It's trying to rob a generation of

their kingly duty so that they never become the vehicles

that God wants to use to actually represent him on

this earth. And so they're passive and insecure and don't

know how to make a decision, or they touch everything

that has an ability to be touched, and they're going

everywhere they're not supposed to go, and they have no control,

no impulse that they can walk away from things because

they are just male. You could say it like this,

it's just in their nature. But Jesus said, any man

that is in Christ, he gets a new nature. This

is why even coming to Christ is still about your decision.

Because everything that makes you a man, nobody will make

you do. You have to decide to do it. Somebody say,

I have a choice, And what God wants you to

understand is male is biological, but man is intentional. That's

your choice. But the reason that He wants you to

become a man is because he wants you to reflect

his image and one day be a father. And this

is why the attack has been on fatherhood because if

you are a male and you just have kids, you're

a daddy, not a father. Oh God, that's why they

call them baby daddies. They don't call them baby fathers

because a father actually has a part of instilling something

into them. They're actually trying to teach them something. What

are they supposed to teach them how to go from

a male to a man. But if you've never gone

through the process of going from a male to a man,

you don't know how how to take anybody through that.

So you settled for being a daddy. God dog, I

am preaching up here right now, and so many people

in this generation have been raised with the absence of

fathers by placebos of a father, which is a daddy,

which says I don't emotionally have to check in as

long as I send you a check, I pay my

child support. You weak, sorry, son of but they didn't

ask to be here. I'm sorry. I get frustrated because

I'm wiping the tears you should have wiped. I sitting

counseling with your daughters, your son who is confused about

his identity. I'm telling him that Jesus loves him and

you up the street. I gotta, I gotta, I gotta

watch this because I have I have a personal I

can't see how you would bring somebody into the world

and then leave them to fend for all of this

by themselves when God gave you an anointing and a

mandate to be able to actually teach them how to

actually grow up to have a healthy soul. So remember

last week when I told you that they need to

be seen, safe, secure, and soothe. That is a part

of what the man is supposed to do. But a

male doesn't think that. A male thinks that as long

as you know me, and I'll show up and I'm

here and I gave you some money, and I don't

treat your mama bad. And I'm not even talking about

the ones who go talk to it. I'm just saying,

like you think that participation is why you need a prize.

I have to literally read a book, take a test,

get blood drawn to get my driver's license, but you

can lay down with anybody and have a kid. The

reason I'm saying this is because I want you to

feel the gravity of what happens when you don't walk

into biblical manhood. Everybody around you suffers, whether you feel

it or not. So what God says is I want

every male to go from mail to everybody say man,

then go to fa which is spiritual because his picture

is the one of a family. God wants fathers to

be in place so that the family is stable. Every

example of what God does in his word is he

uses the metaphor of family. We are the family of God.

I take those who are outside and I bring the

spirit of adoption and set them into family. If you

look at the father's son, all of the analogies are

family because he said, as it is in heaven, we

are family. What do I want to be the picture

of Heaven on earth? It's families. That's why everybody connects

with the story of the prodigal son, because it's in

the family where a son goes away, but when the

son doesn't think he can come back, he starts to

come back and sees the Father's already going towards him.

That is a picture of what God does to you

when you are wayward in your sin, and at the

moment you turn around, God's not just waiting for you

to come back, He's actually coming towards you. What the

picture is family. But what the enemy knows is that's

the ultimate picture of God. How do I kill the family?

I kill the father, and I kill the father by

letting him know that he's not a man, and I

kill his manhood by convincing him to stay a male

because it's easier. Whatever is in your nature, however you

feel this is why God put this in me. If

he didn't want me to have it, then why do

I just feel this. I feel like God wants me

to be with multiple women, because if I'm with multiple women,

why would he put this urge in me and all

these dumb things. That's a male talking, Okay, And the

reason that God places people in family for the last

part is because he wants it to be forever. The

family name is supposed to go on and on and on.

What God is saying is I want my name, my

mark to go on. And I'm the God of Abraham Isaac,

and he's a generational god, so what he wants it

to be is family, relational and forever eternal. He says,

I want you to be in my family, and even

when your family. That's why it even says in Hebrews

that there will be a great cloud of witnesses. That's

your family cheering you own. Oh I'm heaven because they've

made it and it's supposed to be. Oh God, Okay,

So how do you kill God's eternal plan? Keep them

at mail. We could end right there, but I can't

end right there because if this is God's design, you know,

culture always tries to pervert something that God creates. So

there's a new one that was added culturally in the

last two years that I need to address real quick

because I think some of my sisters are thinking that

this is a part of God's design, and I just

wanted to be clear that it's not. There was a

song released in two thousand and twenty four that won

two Grammys. It's had three hundred and eighty one million streams,

and there's a line in it that says, she said,

take your time. What's the rush? I said, Baby, I'm

a dog. I'm a mutt. I'm a dog. I'm a mut. Today,

I have to acknowledge the space between the put it

back up there. Uh, there's a space between male and man.

It's mut. Yeah. Yeah, some of y'all are MutS. You

you you have literally convinced people it's okay for you

to live like this. And I need everybody to understand

what a mutt is. I put it into a crosstic

that you could understand. A mut stands for a male

unwilling to transform. So anytime you hear somebody say, baby,

I'm a dog, I'm a mutt, You're a male, not

a man. Because a man decides to actually do things

that are unc comptable. He decides to continue to grow,

he decides to stay in a place of humility to

actually learn something. He decides to come to the table

and apologize. But a mutt. Do you all know what

a mutt is in real life? It's a what do

you say? It's a dog who has been mixed with

strands of dn name that they were not created to

be mixed with. I could say it like this. It's

a perversion, a mutation. It's somebody that is taking things

from different streams, from different ideas, from my uncle being,

from my cousin Jerry. I'm putting all of these things

into what I should be formed like and I'm trying

to call it manhood. It's mutthood. And the crazy thing

about this line, because the song is a vibe and

I'm telling you, if you listen to it over and over,

you be convinced.

I'd be like, baby, I'm a dog, a dug, I'm.

Telling you, But that's what culture tries to do. It

sweetens it up and you confessing something that you don't

want in your relationship. It's on your relationship goes playlist.

It's even in the movie. I didn't even know. What

I'm saying is culture will try to sell you something.

Ain't nothing wrong with the song that Leon is so talented.

That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the

concept because the girl says, baby, take your time, what's

the rush? She has now lowered the standard to be

able to be in relationship with somebody who's telling her

straight up, don't trust me. I'm a dog rough rough

And anytime you hear mut, it is a man unwilling

to transform. So the title of my message today is

are you a man? Or are you a mut? Only

you can answer that question. Ladies, please stop letting MutS

entertain you throw a stick and tell him to run away. No, no, no.

The reason why I'm saying this is because the longer

you're around them, you'll start to think that this is

the standard. And I know there's some brothers up here

mad at me, And I know you just turned in

your player card last week, and I know you trying

to figure out what am I gonna do because we

just had an issue. I'm gonna teach you. I'm not

gonna never leave you out there, but I need you

to acknowledge nothing changes if you diagnose wrong. You don't

go to the doctor and say my foot hurts when

it really is your hand. We gotta acknowledge the thing.

Many of us did not have pictures of good Man

in our life, and so we settled for making it

up as we go, and we got MutS. And all

I want to know, ladies, are you attracted to a

man or a mutt because you keep only I want

him to be a bad boycott Like I kind of

want him to have a record, but like not nothing

too theorious. Like I mean, I kind of you know

what I'm saying. I kind of want him to act

like you gonna hit me, but like don't hit me.

Y'all know I'll be on TikTok. I heard the TikTok,

Like I want I want to be a boss, but

I want them to be there all the time, Like

I just I want us to see what we're promoting

and what we're lifting up, and what we're celebrating, and

what we are watch this secretly or quietly attracted to,

because you're only attracted to what's actually in your heart.

You may not like the outcome, but you do like

the input. Let me keep moving. Men, are you raising

men or MutS? Hey bro Boro, Hey, hey, listen to me.

I'm your father. Man. Hey, you don't never tell a

woman the whole truth. I've heard men say this to

their children. Hey, hey, hey, that's too much information. You

tell them what they need to know. Hey, trust me, Ahai,

your dad will never steer you wrong. I just want

you to think about the things that you watch this

And many men don't even engage in it. They just

try to hide it and think their kids don't see it.

And I want you to know the greatest private eye

detectives are your kids. There are things to this day

my parents think they hear from us, and all my

brother's like, yeah, we've seen that every day. Like y'all

hear what I'm saying. I'm asking you to make a

decision to change men of God, from where you have

been to where God desired, desires and designed you to be.

So write this point down. Going from a mount to

a man is a choice. Going from a mont to

a man, you can choose today. Today can be the

last day that you barkin be done because it's a

everybody say, choice. The greatest thing that God gave all

of us is choice. You have to choose him because

love has to have a choice. And that's why. First

Corinthians thirteen eleven says, when I was a child, I

spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when

I grew up, this is the key part to this verse,

I put away childish God did not come put them away.

God doesn't put childish things away in your life. He

will let you play with your little toys, in your

arty cards, in your hot wheels, as long as you

beside to. And he said, if you want to go

from being a male or a month to a man,

choose how to choose a man? He has to choose first.

That's why One Corinthians sixteen thirteen says, be watchful, stand

firm in the faith, and act like men. Be strong.

I came to tell every male act like men. How

can you say that? Because I am one. I know

what it is to deny my flesh. I know what

it is to walk in meekness. I know what it

is to leave a life that felt easy, to say

yes to the call of God. I know what it

is to turn the other cheek when I could bust yours.

Y'all don't hear y'all see we think the wrong things

are manhood. I know what it is to get on

my knees and apologize to my wife. I know what

it is to say, baby, I'm sorry I missed that

I didn't cover you in that situation. That was a

misstep on my part. And I'm not just saying I'm sorry.

I'm gonna change it. Because only a man can call

a male to manhood and today as a man, a

man of God, a man of conviction, a man that

leads other men. Today, I'm asking you, maybe you didn't

have a pastor that would be this honest with you.

Maybe you didn't have somebody that you could actually look

at their life and say, maybe I want to follow that.

I am not a perfect man. I still am dependent

on God every single day. But what I have done

is I've decided as for me and my house. Oh God,

I'm getting happy. As for me and this church. Some

of y'all need to get faith and stand strong. And

maybe I wasn't who I needed to be, But today

I'm making a decision as for me and my house,

we will serve the Lord. This is hope for you

because you can decide today. I don't care what your

past was. I don't care what yesterday was. Somebody say,

now you can choose to walk in to biblical manhood. Well,

pastor Mike, can you help me with that? This is

how we're gonna do it. Six things a biblical man

chooses that a mutt would never ha haha. Six things

a biblical man chooses that a mutt would never for

a biblical man chooses number one submission. Here we go.

We just canceled out seventy percent of people, all the

mutts just running away. Why Because this is the number

one thing a man does. A man submits, he becomes

sub to the mission of God. Have you given your

life to Christ? Have you said, not my will, but

yours be done. Have you said because of the call,

many can, but I cannot. Have you picked up your

cross and decided to carry it, not just on Sunday,

but pick it up and carry it daily. I see

a picture of disciples, and y'all know the story. Some

of the first disciples that he actually called to follow him.

They were having a horrible business to day. They were

on a fishing boat and they were trying to get

it and Jesus said to them. They didn't even know

who he was. He said, hey, throw your nets on

the other side. And they're like, who is this dude?

Throw your nets on the other side. We've been fishing

all day. We're professional fishermen. What are you talking about?

But I guess ain't. Nothing else worked. And they threw

their nets on the other side, and the Bible says

when they tried to pick it up, the load was

so heavy that it started to sink their boats. That

they had to call competitors over and put some of

their catch on they boats. It was the biggest business

they had ever had. And then Jesus's simple instruction is

leave that and follow me. Most of us would not

be subbed to that mission. We were like, hold on,

hold on, I gotta cash this in where you're gonna

be on Thursday, because I'm gonna go ahead and go

ahead and put this together and then put a little

bit inside. He said, I just wanted to show you

what I could do. My question is what are you

about to do? And those dudes became disciples not because

they knew everything, It's because they become submitted. They left

what looked prosperous to find what was ever lasting. And

if you are going to be a biblical man, if

you're gonna actually step into this, you're gonna be have

to become sub to the mission. Why are you saying that,

Pastor Mike, Because a munth is solo, a man is submitted.

If you if you're around a man who's isolated and

nobody can be around him, and don't nobody know nothing

about him, run seeing a lot of Netflix documentaries about

guys like that. The reason I'm saying this is because

the greatest level of submission is not just to God. Yeah,

when you become submitted to God, you learn how to

become submitted to others. And that's why this phrase is

a pervasive in culture. Only God can judge me eh eternally,

but my wife can judge if the tone was wrong.

Y'all don't want to hear that. My friends can judge

if the motive was wrong. The people who know me,

they like you did that because you wanted to be seen.

Don't even act like that. But most people are solo.

So when you don't have anybody in anything to be

submitted to, nobody that has to sit down and shut

up card in your life who has to sit down

and shut up car? And when I just said that,

some men just got angry because the only thing that

makes you a man is that you're the final say.

And if you're the final say, then you have to

actually hold everything up. A man doesn't have to be

the final say because we know who has the final say.

Oh God, y'all don't want to hear me. So I'm

just letting everybody know you need to be submitted to

God and you will find much who'll be like. I'm religious,

I'm spiritual, but I am saying I don't know church man.

He just want me for my money. You don't have money.

You're saying something that doesn't need You don't even qualify

for it. Let me stop. Ladies, Can I give you

a tip? I said, Ladies, Can I give you a tip?

Pick a man that has a pack. Pick a man

that has I'm not talking about fifty people. Pick a

man that has good men around him, and then go

have a conversation with them about him. You can talk

to anybody around me and find out what type of

man I am. If they boys, oh yeah saying y'are yeah,

y'all y'ah, he for real though, he for real? Though?

Run Why are you saying this? Because accountability? Watch this

shows up. You don't have to prove you're accountable. You'll

have fruit. But that's somebody who's subed to the mission.

And if you are a male in this place and

you want to actually become a man, choose being submitted

to God. Let me keep moving, Okay, I gotta say

one more thing. The thing that makes a male of

mut is a mutt usually doesn't have a master. The

people who pay all them thousands of dollars for pure

bread dogs, there's somebody who will train, teach, give them.

I got an expensive doll and I don't know why

Natalie'll excuse me, but her and my daughter's conspired and

went and got us a dog. And the thing that

made it expensive was not how cute it was, It

was what blood was running through it. We know the

lineage have. What I'm saying to you today is that

we have a master that has a plan for you,

that doesn't want to harm you, but wants to give

you hope in the future. And he wants you to

be subed to this mission. And if you were in

this room and you're ready to go to the next level,

the first thing you have to do is become submitted

to God's will for your life. Let me give you

number two. A biblical chooses work. It is quiet in

this room, I said, A biblical man, a mutt would

never choose this a much trying to hit the lottery. Oh,

y'all know what I'm talking. A mut's in his room

only making videos to become speedy or drusy or there.

And you have no job. You still live with your mom,

a mutt. Maybe I should do this just for men.

Maybe some of y'all are. Your pride is getting hurt.

You need a job if it doesn't pay you, it's

a hobby. Now I'm just out here working on my skills.

I'm just broock. You need a tuser, Mike, Why are

you saying this? It's biblical? He part of the thing

that takes Adam from being a male to a man.

Is as soon as He created him before Eve, he

gave him responsibility. Hey, here's a garden. Tend to it.

Name all these animals. What are you doing that will

take you days to complete, weeks to complete, years to complete.

A biblical man chooses work. I didn't say it's made

to work, because a man knows that he's not fully

in his purpose if he's not producing something. Oh my God,

be fruitful and multiplies, not just having kids. But this

is what I want to let you know. A mutt

will whine, a man will work. Man, Ain't nobody. Ain't

nobody trying to get Ain't nobody trying to give me

a chance? Man? The man is against me. Bro Hey, hey,

let me help you. A rake and a lawnmower. I

don't care how many convictions you got. You go to

the right neighborhood with a rake and a lawnmower. And

I'm not saying it's your purpose. I'm not saying it's

a forever thing. But many males are waiting for this

moment where something is gonna happen to drop them into

their dream. It's not coming because God couldn't trust you

with it anyway, because he looks at what you did

with what you have already. Check the parable of the talents,

he said, the one with one, the one with two,

the one with he said, what you do with what

I already gave you, at least double it, And if

you have ability to use your hands, you could go.

I don't want to give you all the ideas I

have in my head, but everybody, every man chooses work.

I'll give you some Bible because some of y'all is

looking at me real crazy. Right now, there's a scripture

that says if you don't work, you don't eat. And

this is why, ladies, you have to stop feeding men

who don't work.

Clocket, you are enabling a male to stay a mutt.

Where do munts eat? Anywhere they can find food? And

because your insecurity just wants to be next to a

warm body, you done bottom a Nike track suit. Let

me stop. I got real people in my head. Okay,

here we go, tewond Thessalonians three ten lazy people. Lazy

people want much, but get a little here with the Bible.

This is the Bible. This ain't me. Lazy people want

a lot but get a little. But those who work

hard will prosper. Proverbs thirteen four. Work brings profit, but

mere talk leads to poverty. Okay, a biblical man chooses

number three humility. The reason why that last one was

hard for you to hear is because you haven't any

had anybody tell you anything that hard in love before.

And the thing that rolls up was pride. And what

I want to let you know right now is is

you need to be humble to actually be a man.

Male say whatever they want. They can't take no criticism,

even if it comes from good people. They can't. No,

you ain't telling me you ain't never been here, you

ain't not And God saying, uh, I send Jesus to

be an example of a humble man. And everybody needs

to know. A mutt is hard headed, but a man

is humble. A mutt is hard headed, but a man is.

Everybody say humble because a humble man is unbeatable. I

want you to know. A humble man can get knocked

down and get back up. A humble man can apologize,

A humble man can try again. A humble man watch this,

can wash the feet of enemies. Jesus is at the

Last Supper with his disciples, says, I want to do

something that's uncommon. I want all y'all to take off

your sandals and I want to wash your feet. Now,

this is God in the flesh doing in cultural times

the most disgusting thing you could ever do, because this

was their mode of transportation. Imagine how much dirt and

dust and swords and cuts. And Jesus said, for every

one of you, I want to kneel down, and I

want to be humble enough to let you know. Yes, uh,

I'm the one that you call king, but I'm also

humble enough to get down here and touch your feet. Husbands,

this is the picture of submission that you have to

display for your wife to submit to you. You supposed

to submit to me? No, no, no, no, no, hold on wait,

I only can submit to somebody who has submitted. How

do you even know what submission is? Is? If you're

not submitted to God? I should be able as a

wife to come to you and say this makes me uncomfortable,

and you wrestle with that and go to the one

you're submitted to. God. How do I respond to this?

I should be able to go to my pack and

say yo, I am about done with her, and they

give you some wisdom. You should be able to go

to this word and find what am I supposed to do?

A male would never, a mutt would never, but a

humble man he says, what don't I know? What do

I need to do? What therapy do I need to

go to? What counseling do I need to pay for

another pair of one hundred and fifty dollars. Jordan's ain't

gonna help your insecurity. Another golf club is not going

to help that hole that's in your soul. What you

need is to be humble and get the help you need.

A mutt would never choose that, but a man would.

A man said, I need help. I have a pornography addiction,

and I'm not gonna hide this and try to white

knuckle my way through it. I gotta find some other

men who have beat this thing, and I gotta figure

out how to get myself into a healthy place. People

can't even clap for it because it's so pervasive. It's

in so many people's households. It's robbing people of their

manhood right now, and humility would say I need help.

A man chooses meekness, strength, under control. I'm gonna give

you these last two and then we'll talk about them later,

because I know everybody has to get this in a

deeper way, because today God's asking you to become a

man that represents him. So I'm gonna just say it

like this. A biblical man chooses stability. A mud is scattered,

but a man is stable. What are you doing consistently?

Have you ever had a table that had wobbly legs?

That's annoying, it's very difficult. And what do you do

when you get frustrated about the wobble? You put something

under it that's not supposed to be there. Oh, don't

worry about the book, it's just making us stable. Don't

worry about the alcohol. It's just making me stable. Don't

worry about my people pleasing, that's just making me stable.

Don't worry about me needing the attention from other women.

That's just making me stable. Well, God is asking us,

it's to come back to the craftsman and let him

reshape the table of your life. Because James won and

eight said a double minded man is unstable in all

of his ways. A mutt would never choose to be stable.

He wants to be scattered. Now I don't know what

I'm about to do. I'm gonna go over here, and then

I'm gonna go over here, and then I'm gonna talk

to the people, and then I don't. And even if

you don't say it out loud, that's what's happening here.

That's why all the images and all the movies and

all the different things is trying to make you scattered.

But the greatest version of you is the disciplined version

of you, the part of you that says, I do

not do that. I don't go there, I don't talk

to them. I have to be Somebody say stable, because

you only put valuable things on something that's stable. How

would you build a family, a life if it's not stable.

The fifth thing a biblical man chooses that a mutt

would never is sacrifice. A mud is selfish, a man

is sacrificial. I could give tons of examples, but the

greatest one that I have seen is that after Adam

had work and he was doing what God told him

to do, he said, I'm looking for a partner suitable

for the man. Not the male. Eve was not made

off of males. After Adam's raw version, he looked for

a suitable candidate after his refined, decided version. How do

we know? Because he said, I did not find anyone

suitable for him. So what did I do? I put

him to sleep? And what did Adam have to give

up to get Eve? He had to sacrifice a piece

of him to get the piece he needed. Man of God,

you will not get the wife, the partner, the lover

you are looking for until something dies in you. And

a mutt would never because a mutt is a male

unwilling to transform. But a man says, take my rib

take my pride, take my money here and take it.

Y'all know a man in this way should a man

love a woman? This is what the Bible says. Like Christ,

he went to the cross and died for the bride

of Christ. All the way to death. He said, that's

why you have to pick up your cross daily. Something

in you has to die every day for you to

have a healthy relationship. And a mutton is selfish. Now

this is my time, this is my life, this is

my money, this my family. Then die for it, the

family you love so much, Do like Jesus, die for it?

Are you a man or are you a mutt today?

I believe that God is calling everybody to biblical manhood

Romans five eight. But God demonstrates his own love for

us in this while we were yet sinners, Christ sacrifice

died for all of us so that we could be

in relationship goals with the Father. Standing all over this building.

You on number six said what kind of six I

was seeing? If y'all was listening, stand up, we're going home.

You can write it. Stand it up. The last thing

a biblical man does that a mutt would never don't

leave because I believe God is about to do something

very strong in transformation in this building. As a biblical man,

watch this shows up. I can go all through scripture

and find people who felt unequipped, and their only qualification

is I showed up. David doesn't meet Goliath if he

doesn't show up. Huh. I can just think of all

of these examples where God says, if if you just

do what you can, I'll do the rest. And maybe

a man that's in here right now and you're years

away from being a part of your kid's life, but

you still a drawing breath, show up. Some of y'all

just need to make a decision. I'm gonna keep showing

up to church because faith comes by hearing and hearing

the word of God. I kind of like Pastor mic

I don't know about all of the jokes because he

made me feel kind of crazy. But either that's some

good stuff that happens in there, and like, just keep

showing up instead of going to that job or taking

that meeting. You don't have to go home. Show up

for them kids, show up for your wife, show up

for yourself. Go to the therapy. It goes one hundred

and seven dollars. You used to spend that one night

at the club on girls who didn't even like you. Checkmate,

show up, show up to a tribe, get in community

with people. I don't know those people. You can't know

anybody you don't meet. How'd you meet your friends? You

got now? You had to meet them. Some of you

need whole new circles. The people you around, they might

make money, but they have holes in their soul. Somebody says,

show up, Biblical men, show up. I went through the

most intense counseling this week. I want to be at

home under the bed, but because I'm a biblical man,

I went and picked my wife up at twelve a m.

Last night from the airport she got back from counseling,

and I looked at her and I said, I know

you not coming to church today, but as the head

of his household, as the man that God called me

to be, the decision that I told you I would

do today, I had to do what show up? Yeah,

and some man's life is gonna be changed because they're

gonna decide I'm no longer just gonna be a male,

and I'm not gonna settle for being a mund I'm

going to walk into being a man of God today.

I want to do something that I don't usually do,

but I'm asking for every man that knows they need

to make a step, a step of faith, a bold step.

Whether you were in this room or you're watching online,

I want you to make a sign. If you were

in this room and you're ready to say decide, choose

to be a man of God, I want you to

get to this altar right now. And I don't want

you to delay. I want you to come, and ladies,

I need you to clap. I don't need you to

be thinking of fear. I don't need you to be

thinking about anybody else. This is manhood that you wanting

to stand in it. Y'all come up here. I'man from

all over the building. Y'all stand and face me. Oh,

there should be a bigger shout in this room right now.

If you're watching online, stand up in your living room,

stand up, y'all come up. There's a lot of men coming.

It's okay. If it was a game, you would be

cheering longer than that. These men are making a decision

to stand and to go to another place as you're coming.

Look at me. I need y'all to be praying. They're

still coming. Young men are coming, older men are coming,

Black men are coming, White men are coming. Men are God.

Y'all come up. Man ain't nothing to be scared of here.

Yoll hear me when I say this. Hear me when

I say this. Hear me when I say this. Everybody

listening to me. There are a lot of men that

are still at their seat because the insecurity is keeping them.

We're not judging anybody right now. This ain't about nobody

behind you. This is about you. I don't care how

much gray is on your hair or how young you are.

God's calling you the biblical manhood. Okay, listen to me.

I know what it is to put down the vices.

I know what it is to search your soul. And

the reason you trying to climb and get that money

and get that girl and get that thing is to

feel something in here that's never been talked about. It

me and you was just to be by ourselves and

to talk about the real of it. It's somebody didn't

get when I was a kid. It's something I never

saw before, or is something that happened to me as

I sit here. One in five men have been molested.

I want to tell you one of the men that was.

There's a percl say it's my story, and if I

run from it in shame, I'll never get it healed.

There are things that have happened to you that you've

never told anybody. There's stuff that you're dealing with right now,

and you got under the comforts and you're trying to

figure out you're wrestling for your whole life, and nobody's

ever said me too. The Me Too movement was for

the women. I want to come up here and start

it for the men. Me too. I'm lied me too,

I've cheated me too. I've hurt me too. I've had

no place to cry me and until we real with

each other like this, we settled for being months. Everything

we watch on our Instagram feed, some of y'all need

to go on to detox. All them girls working out

ain't helping you get no muscles. Come on, man, I

don't care that they're in the room. I'm talking to

you because it's keeping you at mail and God wants

you to be the man he created you to be,

because he desires you to be the father. And somebody

like well, I don't want kids or I can't have kids,

your nephews, your sister's kids, those people that are around you,

that friend that she don't have no fun. It's literally,

God say, I put you there for a reason, but

you can't even see your purpose because you won't become

the man I've called you to be. Today, I'm asking

you make the choice. Submit to God. I'm asking you,

but come, men that coming to churches are non negotiable.

What you're doing today. It's someday man, what you're talking about,

which is all the we're going to church. I can't

pull up. I'm watching it all Loine, No, no, no, no, no, bro,

I can't no. The game will be on DVR at

they gonna win or lose without us comes up to

the mission today, I'm gonna pray for you. I'm gonna

pray that you make the decision I made at thirty

one years old. You said, pastor thirty one carried it

to minus when you already a pastor. Your vocation doesn't matter.

You can fake and act like you a man for

a long time. Come on, some of y'all know, yea

them grades came from stress, trying to hold everything together.

Who did I what? And God's saying today you can

walk into freedom any man that be in Christ. He

is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold

He makes everything new. Every man in this place that's

making that decision, lift your hands right now. I want

to pray for you, and I need y'all to stretch

your hands and pray right now. Father, in the name

of Jesus, I thank you for every young man, every

middle aged man, every older man, every seasoned man who

is taking this step of faith to trust you with

their entire life. Today I speak life, no matter how

deep the hole is, no matter how many times they've

messed up. No matter how many times, Father God they've said,

I can't make this. Today, God, I'm asking that you

do a work on the inside of them, from the

youngest to the oldest. Father God, that revolutionizes their lives. Today,

I'm praying for transformation. I pray that you would heal

the hearts of the men of God that are under

the sound of my voice. Today, God, I'm asking for

something unique. Would you make their souls hold no more fear,

no more secrets, no more lying, no more hiding, no

more unhealed trauma. Today starts a revolution of transformation in

their lives. Everything around them will prosper. They will be

fruitful and multiply. They will not be men who go

back on their word. There yes will be yes, and

their no will be no. They will be men of integrity,

men of standards, and they will be in relationships, Father

God that glorify you. I pray for their families, that

their families will live and not die, that they will

have legacy. I pray for their marriages, even if the

marriage just started off toxic. I'm thanking you for a turnaround.

In the name of Jesus. I'm thinking you, Father God

that today you are doing a deep work on the

inside that's gonna show on the outside. Today. I thank

you for restoration. Look at me, man, This is how

I'm gonna end this. Because your emotions are gonna follow

your decision. Hear what I just said. Some people think

tears mean you changed. I've cried and gone back and

done the same thing. Your decision is going to change

your emotional state. In the beginning, when God created you,

he looked at his creation, and do you know what

he said about you? He said you were good. I

want to tell you you're a good man. I want to

tell you, no matter what you've done, under all of

the debris, you're a good man. You're a good man.

I need somebody to hear this in yourself. You're a

good man. I know it happened to you. I know

you did some bad stuff, but you're a good man.

Start to confess it. God called you good. So maybe

I was raised in the hood, maybe I was exposed

to some things early. But under all of that, somebody say,

I'm a good man. Confess that over yourself every day.

You're a good man. You're a good man. Come on,

say it. I'm a good man. No say it like

you mean it. I'm a good man. How dare anybody

call you what God has already labeled? So don't answer

and live to the standard of anything else. I'm a

good man. I made a mistake, but I'm a good man.

I made some poor choices, but I'm a good man

because that's how He made me. Don't let Instagram, don't

let toxic women or bitter women tell you who you are.

I want to say this because there's an attack against manhood.

No man is good, all of them dogs, all of them.

That's what happened to me. That's what I did. But

God said I'm good all this week. Every day you

wake up, Thank you Father, Thank you that i'm changing,

Thank you that I'm becoming. I'm a good man. Encourage

your brother. What's up, good man? What's up? That's a

good man right there? You hear me. Oh, this is

my brother. He's a good man. You I'm saying, come on,

look at him, brother, and tell him you're a good man.

You're a good man. You're a good man. Bro. Hey listen. Oh,

I feel the presence of God right now, y'all. Good man,

you're a good man. Don't accept an anything else. Ladies

start acknowledging you're a good man. You better call out

of them what God has placed in them. It don't

matter what it looks like. Right now, Hey fellow, you're

a good man. Listen, hold on before all my brothers

go back today seat. If you haven't met Jesus this

for you. Don't come up here and just get a

feel good. Don't just become a good man, be a

god man man. You hear me and anybody under the

sound of my voice, if you have not accepted Jesus,

today is the day with these good brothers. If you

want to make Jesus Christ your personal Lord. And said you,

whether you're watching this behind a concrete wall, or you

watching this at the gym, or in a pit house

or at a presidential suite, I want you to know

that right now, today is the day of salvation, and

Jesus went to the cross to sacrifice for you so

you could have a relationship with the Father. And I

know we're a little bit over time, but I believe

this is the perfect moment for you to give your

life to Jesus Christ today. If you are at this

altar today, a month makes excuses a man chooses today,

I sat before you life and death, and I'm gonna

give you the answer to the test. Choose life. It's

the right answer. If you want to choose Jesus today

at this altar and all over this room, on the

count of three, Ladies, you are included in this because

some of you have been so moved by this moment

right now, because you are a product of not having

a good man in your life. He didn't know how

to show up for you. And we're gonna help you

heal because God's given us wisdom on that. But today,

I believe God's gonna do something brand new in all

of us today. If you want to accept Jesus man, woman, boy, girl,

child today on the counter. Three, I just want you

to slip your hand up in the air. Then we're

gonna pray together. One you're making the greatest decision of

your life. Two, I'm telling you He's gonna write your

name in the life book of Life. I'm already seeing

hands right there. Three. If you want to make Jesus

Christ your personal Lord and savior, lad y'all, I see you,

I see you, I see you, I see you, I

see you. In more than that. God, y'all can celebrate. Hey,

listen for the benefit of those who are coming to Christ.

All of us gonna pray this prayer. I see God

doing deep work on y'all. Come on, let's pray. Say God,

thank you for sending Jesus just for me. Today, I

give you my life. I repent of my old ways

and I turn to you. I believe you lived, you die,

and you rose again with all power just for me.

Today I decide my life is all yours. Change me,

renew me, transform me. I'm yours in Jesus' name. Amen.

Jase like celebrite. Mm hmm